Randy Pausch Quotes

When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I find teaching to be a great way to keep everything in perspective and to help give back. It's also a lot of fun and creatively invigorating.

Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

Meadowlark inspired me to play for a long time. I thought, 'If he could do it, I can do it.' The legacy that Meadowlark leaves is something that every child and adult can benefit from.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

I've been blessed by learning certain principles and values that transformed my life and enabled me to accomplish more than I really had the ability to do or ever dream possible. And so I decided that I wanted to give as many other people as possible the opportunity to learn these ideas and transform their lives as I had.

Follow your dreams, transform your life.

I feel so blessed to get to live out my dreams, and I want to help others live theirs.

I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.

I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

I can give my love of learning to other people.

At a pivotal time in my life, Barack Obama gave me hope that a boy who grew up like me could still achieve the most important of my dreams. For that, I'll miss him and the example he set.